The videos really small on this one. I'm on a mobile phone. Can't 🐻 bearly see what you looking at. Just lettinf u know incase u not aware of it... Namastè 😉
This song actually broke down barriers and helped revolutionalize a new era where rappers were able to collaborate with rock musicians. Great day in music history.
“Walk This Way” is Aerosmith’s song. The story goes: Run DMC used the actual vinyl record (Aerosmith/“Toys In The Attic” album) to scratch with on the turntable for years not knowing anything about the band or who they were! After they (RDMC) started gaining fame & started recording, someone noticed the vinyl LP they were using & got the idea to get in touch w/the actual band Aerosmith for a collaboration & the rest is history!👍🏼
Actually run was against it for a while because he didn't understand the lyrics. After he started getting with the vibe.... Then... The rest is history lol.
this was a colab between two greats in the 80's. We were more interested in having a good time than letting society tell us what was and was not acceptable.
You cannot overstate how much of a seismic moment this was in music. It was a huge deal that changed the musical landscape forever. The younger generation takes crossovers for granted. These were two completely separate genres up until this video.
@@jamiemiller6156 I often think my memories growing up are delusional. I honestly do not remember us having the racial or sexual divide we are seeing now. It breaks my heart daily to hear and see what is becoming of us. I am happy to hear another voice who remembers this kind of unity
Apparently, before that song came out Aerosmith were on a hard low and didn't sell well at all. This collab reignited their fame and started the rise to become one of the best selling rock bands of all time. Which is funny, because I actually prefer their older stuff xD
Toys in the Attic is a legendary album to be sure and an all time best. That said they didn't do much of note after the "comeback" other than cash in on dream on and do a few vids for MTV.
@@brianl8481 I'm almost 43. I don't love today's rap but old school rap like Run DMC I do. I think there's a big difference between them just like old school rock versus today's rock groups. Just my opinion
@@jamescrane2156 42 years old here. I started out as a metal head with a mullet but also love 90’s hip hop/rap too. Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s it was a bit more tribal though.
Had no idea when I listened to this song off the "Toys in the Attic" album back in '75 that I would be watching kids review and admire it 45 years later.
This helped Aerosmith to make a comeback, they had been huge in the seventies, but then got on drugs and their career suffered, this brought them back to mainstream America.
They got together when RUN DMC asked Aerosmith tho remake it with them. Also if you weren't aware the singer for Aerosmith is Steven Tyler fron American Idol ( judge )
@@timtolin5435 that's wrong, Aerosmith asked Run-DMC to remake the song, they agreed to do it, but they thought they were asking them to remake the whole song when they showed up to record they found out it was gonna be with both Aerosmith and Run-DMC.
@@6jeremy9 double wrong it was the manager of run-dmc to rap the song but dmc hated the lyrics but the manager convinced them and he also convinced Aerosmith to work together.
here is some cultural context: I was in high school at the time in the 80’s and racial separation was real. This song went a long way over the years to close those differences. I love both Aerosmith and Run DMC.
Very true, but I don’t think it was racial. I think it was more a sub-culture thing because the separation also happened in other countries where there were no “White vs Black people”. It was more like the Rockers vs Hip Hop/Rappers. This collab single handedly breached that divisive wall between the two groups just like Steve Tyler did early in the video. This single literally has a place in human history. It’s a little sad that the context is getting lost to the later generations.
Both valid points. And got both. I remember when this hit MTV and everyone when nuts about the concept of a white rock band jamming with a black rap group. But more than anything, it showed that we could all get along - no matter the skin tone or musical preferences. Besides, if you listen to alot of rap, the MCs are sampling Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Stones, etc.
I was young in clubs in Houston and Galveston Texas. No racial separation . Many mixed clubs and everything! Black,White, Puerto Rican EVERYBODY justa freaken! Good times a Rollin! Party in The USA! Good ole Days! Oh if I could turn back time!
This story is basically goes like this: Aerosmith originally made the song way back in the 1970s. Back in 1975, I think. In the 80s, Run-DMC made a rap-version as a cover in the mid-80s. As it happens, said cover was permitted by record label, but Aerosmith itself wasn't aware. The Run-DMC version became EXTREMELY popular because it was a blend of rap and a popular rock N roll song. Steven Tyler (the singer), who had been in rehab at the time, managed to hear their version and told Joe Perry (the guitarist) to get in contact with Run-DMC to arrange a meet. Run-DMC found out Tyler wanted to meet them, only to find out later that their manager hadn't gotten Aerosmith's blessing for the cover--just the record label's. When the groups finally met after Tyler graduated from rehab, Run-DMC expected to be sued, not only for Aerosmith to give their blessing, but Tyler to pitch the idea for Run-DMC to join them on an Aerosmith comeback tour. While the tour boosted Run-DMC's name into legendary status, it also acted as a diving board for Aerosmith, who then sent of the top three best selling albums of their career: PUMP, GET A GRIP, & PERMANENT VACATION.
@@chiefsteps-in-poo8447 I knew it by heart--mainly because I'm one of the biggest Aerosmith fans out there. Tyler & Perry were infamous for their drug use. Before rehab, the media dubbed them 'The Toxic Twins'.
@Not Sure Yes and no. If you intend to make money off said cover (especially if you want to put it on an album), you need to acknowledge the original artist and most seek permission. Otherwise, you can be sued for copyright violation. If you simply play a song live at a concert, you don't necessarily need to.
Originally Steve Tyler, the lead vocalist from Aerosmith was dead set against doing this song with them. But after they met and Run DMC explained the concept, he got on board. Arguably, this collab reignited Aerosmith, and introduced a fading band to a whole new generation of MTV kids, extending their already dazzling career.
The fusion of rap music and rock was something that was never done before. This reboot of Aerosmith's song literally put rap as a music genre in the limelight. They never got the credit they deserved for it and every rapper that came after that should thank RUN DMC for that
And this, Boys and girls, is the birth of rap fts in mainstream music. The revolutionizes the formula and knocked it out the box. Aerosmith and Run DMC are legends. This song is Aerosmith's and Run DMC and them collab to redo it. That became the first birth of mixing the genres. Now a days, every pop artist or other genre...even country, mixes rappers as features on their songs. It's like a common thing now. So now you know where it started. This song remake was HUGE! Run DMC you have to listen to more of.
The whole history of this is fascinating and amazing. This collaboration introduced hip-hop/rap to the mainstream more than probably any other song before it.
I remember when this came out , I knew about RUN DMC, but had never heard of Aerosmith and didn't realize this was an Aerosmith song . Loved the rock /rap fusion they created .
The original song was very sing talking in the original. And the beat was sampled all the time by Run DMC when they were independent... it's Rick Rubin I think that had the idea to bring them together. Awesome. Rock and Hip Hop history.
As everyone mentioned, this is the first rap/rock collab. Aerosmith came out with this song in... I want to say 1975. They were already half way down the road to obscurity from internal issues with the band, drugs, etc. Run DMC effectively brought this band back to life with collaborating with them on this song (which is Aerosmith's song). Aerosmith went on to score a top 10 album a year later after this was dropped. And keep in mind that this was back when rap and rock were severely polarized, where it was all but taboo for one side to like the other, with the exception being the Beastie Boys. By the way.. this happened in 1986. The only green screen work anyone had back then was being a weatherman for the news! This was all live when you went on location to shoot music videos! Oh, and Addidas being back then? They go back farther, but it was Run DMC that made them BIG in the 80s.
Music is love and love always wins. Glad you kids enjoyed it. As a guitar player the first time I heard that riff was just like "whoa, what in thee fuck is THAT?!?!?!?"
Actual video. Both collaborated to expand their music to multiple genres. It was fucking genius. Yes, I said was, because I am old enough to remember when it came out.
A huge thank you to Run DMC! Seriously!!!! During that time Aerosmith was pretty much at the tail end of drug abuse, they recorded the Aerosmith song with the band, it was this particular theme that resurrected Aerosmith and became rock n roll hall of famers! So thank you for your part in history!! Run DMC rocks!
lol the lil lady pause the music and says "this is unique" That's what the whole world said when this dropped, no one had ever heard anything like this before, cute.
I would love if you guys did a lot more early in mid-80s rap right when it started to become mainstream run DMC ,grandmaster flash The furious Five, Tone Loc, sugar Hill gang
The thing is, back when I was digging Aerosmith as a young person, everyone told you you either were a hip hop kid or you were a rock kid (or of course country kid but I was not going to go there). I can't explain to you how big the barrier was between the two types of music. It was not only racial and urban vs suburban and everything, it was literally like a tribal thing, you weren't allowed to like both, it was considered ridiculous for you to enjoy both types of music. It was like a culture war and it was very weird, looking back.. but then this collab happened and literally changed the face of music. That is why you had people like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit and Korn who were able to mix hip hop and rock together, and it paved the way for how music has evolved since then so that there are not these big lines in between everybody, and people just make music that appeals to them. The impact of this collaboration cannot be overstated, it brought hip hop into the eyes of all of the rock kids and told us it was okay to learn about hip hop, and it took rap into the rock world so that rappers were able to listen to rock without feeling like they were betraying their people or whatever, there was all this weird s*** going on between everybody, cuz literally you had adults telling you that if you listened to hip hop and you are from a rock family that you were betraying your people or some stupid s*** ... and I don't know if it was vice versa but I know that my ex who is Black didn't listen to rock her whole life because you either listened to Hip Hop or you listened to nothing... and then she heard this song and then she heard some other collaba afterwards and got to listen to rock. The amount of mutual understanding and appreciation that came out of this collaboration is not something you could actually put on paper. It's more important than I can state, because without hip hop breaking into more of a mainstream space that had been held by Rock for like 40 years, hip hop probably wouldn't have ended up being the overpowered, massively popular movement that it has become where everybody listens to it, and honestly I think you can credit this collaboration for that even happening. And for making it possible for people like Lil Nas X to collab between hip hop and country since then, because all these walls got broken down. It was really an incredible moment in music history.
They created this hybrid because of the remix RUN DMC did of this Aerosmith song. The beginning of this video with them not liking each other was a metaphor for the schism between rock and rap, hence the wall that gets broken down and by the end of it, they are on tour together. Listen to Bring The Noise, by Anthrax and Public Enemy. Greatest rap Rock hybrid and a birth point for what came to be Rapcore music.
Rick Rubin, one of the founders of Def Jam records (along with Russell Simmons), who had Run DMC on the label, convinced them to do it. They not only didn't want to, after they agreed, they had to be persuaded to sing the original lyrics instead of rapping their own stuff over it. As commented previously, this opened a lot of minds, at the time, both ways, across rock and rap (which wasn't called hip-hop back then) fans.
That's the late 80's.. genius.. rap and rock... "let's do a collaboration and a concert tour"... "make a ton of money"... i saw them in '86, maybe '87... good stuff... thanks for the memory.. xo
Didn't even blink- "Adidas". I remember when this premiered on MTV. No social media, but the next Monday, at school, everyone was buzzing about it. This was a pivotal moment for rap music becoming "mainstream". It was also my first exposure to rap music. Thx for the memories 🥰✌️
I remember this song when it came out and everybody had the small gold chains and the the hats and the Adidas! One of the first songs to have a rock and rap group together. Also RunDmc never had shoelaces in their shoes! Fashion! Lol
First of its kind guy's first of it's kind and I mean in the history of music!!! This will always be there moment, this brought together so many people and so many genres, you have know idea and my generation got to witness it... Still makes most wanna dance and smile to this day...
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Perhaps the first example of musicians setting the tone for saying, just get along and have a blast, don't matter if its, rock or rap, white or black - have fun.
Still love the songs, a 80s classic of two great bands together to create tge best rap/rock battle song. I listened to this growing up in 80s as a kid and still awsome.
Fun fact : all lyrics heard were original , Run DMC didn't change a word, they just delivered it in their own way. And I'm pretty sure Jay ( R.I.P ) had a lot to do with the colab. Run DMC have been rockn since '83 , check out " rock box" & " King of rock " etc.
Originally an Aerosmith song. Run Dmc used to rap over the drums. Their producer RICK RUBIN convinced them to do a cover of the song and bring in Aerosmith to do it with them. Aerosmith had been on the verge of breaking up until this collab happened.
It's so weird to watch young reactors see this for the first time and remember when it came out, lol - glad you are discovering these talented musicians and cool events in music :-)
All rock, punk, and rap were connected in the 80's and they all worked together. Rap got out with the help of the DIY punk recording studios and self built distribution and later thrash metal was helped out by rap labels and studios. The idea that all these scenes in the late 70's and 80's were separate was a recent revisionist myth. People like KRS-1 were as respected as Jello Biafra in the punk community and people like Ice T or Public Enemy were always playing at punk shows or doing collaborations. The funniest thing is one of the most important independent producers of the 80's and 90's rap scene was also one of the most important of the thrash metal scene and the guy was Asian. Only corporate branding and later image control divided these groups among fans.
They started singing Arrowsmith's song and thats what got them to put the Mike stand through the wall. This was a music video with an audience not a concert. I think.
Adidas Superstars came out in 1969 and in the 70s most of the NBA players wore them. Afterwards the shoes advanced from courts to the streets and became part of fashion. Run DMC wore them without any laces and pushing the tongue out. They even released a song called My Adidas in 1986, on the same album they covered this Aerosmith song. The 80s Superstars were the originals, the ones Adidas sells now are known as Superstar II's. Recently they also released the 50th anniversary model Superstar 2020.
It was originally Aerosmith's song. But to shed some light on people they thought had talent, Aerosmith and Run DMC collaborated on a cover, and this was definitely not the norm, even at the time people knew they were watching something unusual in a good way.
For a helluva lot of suburban white kids this was their first introduction to Run DMC. It brought two groups a lot closer, because it helped a lot of people see eachother as friends on equal grounds of respect. That feeling was awesome. Both groups had admiration for eachother. Its still out there too, cuz that shit never really dies. Keep up the good work, expand your minds, bring the world together, and upgrade that grey matter!
I remember growing up with this, my dad was an Aerosmith fan so I knew the song growing up BUT I was in LOVE/raised with the Run DMC version and I feel they ALL killed it. GD it'll be both their songs, in my heart, 'til I die
NOW THIS WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE!!!
Run D MC has a good one “Tricky”. If you’ve seen Road Trip then you’ve heard it
That 80’s rock was fun. Check out Motley Crue Smoking in the boys room” or Girls Girls Girls..
Imagine seeing this when it came out, we all loved it !
Everyone gets this backwards. This is an Aerosmith song featuring run dmc.
The videos really small on this one. I'm on a mobile phone. Can't 🐻 bearly see what you looking at.
Just lettinf u know incase u not aware of it...
Namastè 😉
This song actually broke down barriers and helped revolutionalize a new era where rappers were able to collaborate with rock musicians. Great day in music history.
These guys and the Beastie Bros dude
Imagine if there would, be a song that blurs rap and country.
@@artman40 listen to Demun Jones dude
“Walk This Way” is Aerosmith’s song. The story goes: Run DMC used the actual vinyl record (Aerosmith/“Toys In The Attic” album) to scratch with on the turntable for years not knowing anything about the band or who they were! After they (RDMC) started gaining fame & started recording, someone noticed the vinyl LP they were using & got the idea to get in touch w/the actual band Aerosmith for a collaboration & the rest is history!👍🏼
Actually run was against it for a while because he didn't understand the lyrics. After he started getting with the vibe.... Then... The rest is history lol.
Rick Rubin, who was one of their producers, is the one that suggested the collab.
@@MrGrifter123 Well to be honest nobody understands Steven Tyler
@@mztweety1374 how so
Rick Rueben was the producer and HE got the two together.
this was a colab between two greats in the 80's. We were more interested in having a good time than letting society tell us what was and was not acceptable.
You cannot overstate how much of a seismic moment this was in music. It was a huge deal that changed the musical landscape forever. The younger generation takes crossovers for granted. These were two completely separate genres up until this video.
@@jamiemiller6156 I often think my memories growing up are delusional. I honestly do not remember us having the racial or sexual divide we are seeing now. It breaks my heart daily to hear and see what is becoming of us. I am happy to hear another voice who remembers this kind of unity
@@robertakline9785 trust me.... The divide was there. Just not as much as it is now
@@robertakline9785 the divide is 100% media driven. They are tearing us apart.
@@fetumhook, right?
It was the media that came up with slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK.
"Yeah they're a pretty decent band". Aerosmith is one of the best selling, hardest rocking bands of all time!
Decent? Are you serious?
I was pointing out what they said in the video. They're one if the best rock bands ever!
Oh , I see, my bad ....true apologies!!
Apparently, before that song came out Aerosmith were on a hard low and didn't sell well at all. This collab reignited their fame and started the rise to become one of the best selling rock bands of all time. Which is funny, because I actually prefer their older stuff xD
Toys in the Attic is a legendary album to be sure and an all time best.
That said they didn't do much of note after the "comeback" other than cash in on dream on and do a few vids for MTV.
This why so many 40+ year olds love rock and rap!
I'm 40, don't love rap, but definite respect for the likes of Run DMC.
@@brianl8481 I'm almost 43. I don't love today's rap but old school rap like Run DMC I do. I think there's a big difference between them just like old school rock versus today's rock groups. Just my opinion
You're clueless, almost all rock fans over 40 hate rap, they don't even consider it to be music.
i am almost 40 ... can confirm to love both: rock and rap :-)
@@jamescrane2156 42 years old here. I started out as a metal head with a mullet but also love 90’s hip hop/rap too. Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s it was a bit more tribal though.
I actually remember when this collaboration happened.
Me too... I remember the MTV world premiere...👀
Yup
Had no idea when I listened to this song off the "Toys in the Attic" album back in '75 that I would be watching kids review and admire it 45 years later.
No way in the world
Can you imagine how far in the future 45 years sounded then?
I'm sure you can
@@750count
Yeah, I remember as a freshman in HS in fall 1972 a teacher telling us how strange the year 2000 would be, when we were 42-43 years old.
The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” is a must....same for “Rapture” by Blondie.......
Discovered RD when it came out on 45. I was 10. Listened over and over and over...
@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA yep, I can’t recall where I put my keys but still can remember all the lyrics.....
@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA zee
I have the LP extended version
The Message by Grandmaster Flash ... Time Zone (Afrika Bambaataa feat.John Lydon)...
This helped Aerosmith to make a comeback, they had been huge in the seventies, but then got on drugs and their career suffered, this brought them back to mainstream America.
This is an aerosmith song remixed with Run dmc.
They got together when RUN DMC asked Aerosmith tho remake it with them. Also if you weren't aware the singer for Aerosmith is Steven Tyler fron American Idol ( judge )
@@timtolin5435 that's wrong, Aerosmith asked Run-DMC to remake the song, they agreed to do it, but they thought they were asking them to remake the whole song when they showed up to record they found out it was gonna be with both Aerosmith and Run-DMC.
Install my thunder. LOL 😆
@@6jeremy9 double wrong it was the manager of run-dmc to rap the song but dmc hated the lyrics but the manager convinced them and he also convinced Aerosmith to work together.
@@Thunar55 soo I guess run dmc an Aerosmith was just lying in the interview they gave about it of how it came together...
here is some cultural context: I was in high school at the time in the 80’s and racial separation was real. This song went a long way over the years to close those differences. I love both Aerosmith and Run DMC.
Very true, but I don’t think it was racial. I think it was more a sub-culture thing because the separation also happened in other countries where there were no “White vs Black people”. It was more like the Rockers vs Hip Hop/Rappers.
This collab single handedly breached that divisive wall between the two groups just like Steve Tyler did early in the video. This single literally has a place in human history. It’s a little sad that the context is getting lost to the later generations.
Both valid points. And got both. I remember when this hit MTV and everyone when nuts about the concept of a white rock band jamming with a black rap group. But more than anything, it showed that we could all get along - no matter the skin tone or musical preferences. Besides, if you listen to alot of rap, the MCs are sampling Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Stones, etc.
I was young in clubs in Houston and Galveston Texas. No racial separation . Many mixed clubs and everything! Black,White, Puerto Rican EVERYBODY justa freaken! Good times a Rollin! Party in The USA! Good ole Days! Oh if I could turn back time!
This is a landmark track for me as well.
This story is basically goes like this: Aerosmith originally made the song way back in the 1970s. Back in 1975, I think. In the 80s, Run-DMC made a rap-version as a cover in the mid-80s. As it happens, said cover was permitted by record label, but Aerosmith itself wasn't aware. The Run-DMC version became EXTREMELY popular because it was a blend of rap and a popular rock N roll song. Steven Tyler (the singer), who had been in rehab at the time, managed to hear their version and told Joe Perry (the guitarist) to get in contact with Run-DMC to arrange a meet. Run-DMC found out Tyler wanted to meet them, only to find out later that their manager hadn't gotten Aerosmith's blessing for the cover--just the record label's. When the groups finally met after Tyler graduated from rehab, Run-DMC expected to be sued, not only for Aerosmith to give their blessing, but Tyler to pitch the idea for Run-DMC to join them on an Aerosmith comeback tour. While the tour boosted Run-DMC's name into legendary status, it also acted as a diving board for Aerosmith, who then sent of the top three best selling albums of their career: PUMP, GET A GRIP, & PERMANENT VACATION.
That was too long and too detailed an explanation not to be true. Good job.
@@chiefsteps-in-poo8447 I knew it by heart--mainly because I'm one of the biggest Aerosmith fans out there. Tyler & Perry were infamous for their drug use. Before rehab, the media dubbed them 'The Toxic Twins'.
I was gonna try to explain it, but you did it better. This revived their career.
@Not Sure Yes and no. If you intend to make money off said cover (especially if you want to put it on an album), you need to acknowledge the original artist and most seek permission. Otherwise, you can be sued for copyright violation. If you simply play a song live at a concert, you don't necessarily need to.
Originally Steve Tyler, the lead vocalist from Aerosmith was dead set against doing this song with them. But after they met and Run DMC explained the concept, he got on board. Arguably, this collab reignited Aerosmith, and introduced a fading band to a whole new generation of MTV kids, extending their already dazzling career.
The fusion of rap music and rock was something that was never done before. This reboot of Aerosmith's song literally put rap as a music genre in the limelight. They never got the credit they deserved for it and every rapper that came after that should thank RUN DMC for that
Back then Aerosmith was on the verge of fading away and Run DMC gave them new life
Her smile is adorable
The 80’s were great!
Ah the 80's, what a time!
The lead singer, Steve Tyler? His daughter is a certain famous actress called Liv Tyler.
Liv's mother is Bebe Buell. She was a Playboy Playmate in 1974.
The other daughter was in rush hour 3
This pulled DMC (et all) into the mainstream. It blew up MTV.
True that to good music doesn't see color. Keep on.
And this, Boys and girls, is the birth of rap fts in mainstream music. The revolutionizes the formula and knocked it out the box. Aerosmith and Run DMC are legends.
This song is Aerosmith's and Run DMC and them collab to redo it. That became the first birth of mixing the genres. Now a days, every pop artist or other genre...even country, mixes rappers as features on their songs. It's like a common thing now. So now you know where it started. This song remake was HUGE! Run DMC you have to listen to more of.
The whole history of this is fascinating and amazing. This collaboration introduced hip-hop/rap to the mainstream more than probably any other song before it.
This cross over was amazing! It helped both bands gain a ton of new fans, and made 2 huge bands even bigger!
Neither band wanted to do this song together. Run dmc actually hated the original song. Then they did it, it saved aerosmiths career.
I KNOW THEY ABOUT TO JAM 🎸!!!! MUCH LOVE 💘 KIDS!!!
🤘🤘❤🤘🤘😁✌🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeah man. My brothers and me were elementary school and we would break because the music on the scene then was made for it!!!! 😉💯
I remember when this came out , I knew about RUN DMC, but had never heard of Aerosmith and didn't realize this was an Aerosmith song . Loved the rock /rap fusion they created .
It is hard to overstate how much that this song blew everyone's mind when it was first was released.
First rap and rock calab to ever play together
... BIG CLASSIC ... BIG SOUND ... BIG RESPECT ...
The original song was very sing talking in the original. And the beat was sampled all the time by Run DMC when they were independent... it's Rick Rubin I think that had the idea to bring them together. Awesome. Rock and Hip Hop history.
One of my all time favorite songs, classic
It Was Everyone! Real Performance
One of the first if not the first rock and hip hop collaborations!
"How did that collaboration even happen?" Rick Rubin dude, his work with Def Jam at the time was groundbreaking
Sooo cute, they don't know this is an aero Smith song, Awwww. Featuring run dmc .
Love watching the young ones discoverering new eras.
I believe this historical colab made run dmc the first hip hop group to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame
As everyone mentioned, this is the first rap/rock collab. Aerosmith came out with this song in... I want to say 1975. They were already half way down the road to obscurity from internal issues with the band, drugs, etc. Run DMC effectively brought this band back to life with collaborating with them on this song (which is Aerosmith's song). Aerosmith went on to score a top 10 album a year later after this was dropped. And keep in mind that this was back when rap and rock were severely polarized, where it was all but taboo for one side to like the other, with the exception being the Beastie Boys.
By the way.. this happened in 1986. The only green screen work anyone had back then was being a weatherman for the news! This was all live when you went on location to shoot music videos! Oh, and Addidas being back then? They go back farther, but it was Run DMC that made them BIG in the 80s.
And just like that a new era was born😍🤘
BlessUp!!!!
Music is love and love always wins. Glad you kids enjoyed it. As a guitar player the first time I heard that riff was just like "whoa, what in thee fuck is THAT?!?!?!?"
I had never heard Walk This Way in it's original form until years after hearing this. Absolutely love this and don't care for the original.
Actual video. Both collaborated to expand their music to multiple genres. It was fucking genius. Yes, I said was, because I am old enough to remember when it came out.
Run DMC were always really big rock fans💯
A huge thank you to Run DMC! Seriously!!!! During that time Aerosmith was pretty much at the tail end of drug abuse, they recorded the Aerosmith song with the band, it was this particular theme that resurrected Aerosmith and became rock n roll hall of famers! So thank you for your part in history!! Run DMC rocks!
lol the lil lady pause the music and says "this is unique" That's what the whole world said when this dropped, no one had ever heard anything like this before, cute.
I would love if you guys did a lot more early in mid-80s rap right when it started to become mainstream run DMC ,grandmaster flash The furious Five, Tone Loc, sugar Hill gang
i would love to just give us a few names
@@DeanBros Tone Loc "Funky cold Medina", Sugar Hill Gang "Rappers Delight" grandmaster flash and the furious Five "The Message"
@@DeanBros ll cool j, eric b & rahim, public enemy, beastie boys, salt n pepa, nwa...
@@DeanBros You'll love Tone Loc
@@discus1713 The Message for sure
This was our high school senior's song when this came out. It was a big deal having these two different bands merge so smoothly in this song.
First rap/rock collaboration ever. 1980’s!!!
When Rock first met Rap. This song revitalized Aerosmith and brought Hip Hop to the mainstream.
The thing is, back when I was digging Aerosmith as a young person, everyone told you you either were a hip hop kid or you were a rock kid (or of course country kid but I was not going to go there). I can't explain to you how big the barrier was between the two types of music. It was not only racial and urban vs suburban and everything, it was literally like a tribal thing, you weren't allowed to like both, it was considered ridiculous for you to enjoy both types of music. It was like a culture war and it was very weird, looking back.. but then this collab happened and literally changed the face of music. That is why you had people like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit and Korn who were able to mix hip hop and rock together, and it paved the way for how music has evolved since then so that there are not these big lines in between everybody, and people just make music that appeals to them. The impact of this collaboration cannot be overstated, it brought hip hop into the eyes of all of the rock kids and told us it was okay to learn about hip hop, and it took rap into the rock world so that rappers were able to listen to rock without feeling like they were betraying their people or whatever, there was all this weird s*** going on between everybody, cuz literally you had adults telling you that if you listened to hip hop and you are from a rock family that you were betraying your people or some stupid s*** ... and I don't know if it was vice versa but I know that my ex who is Black didn't listen to rock her whole life because you either listened to Hip Hop or you listened to nothing... and then she heard this song and then she heard some other collaba afterwards and got to listen to rock. The amount of mutual understanding and appreciation that came out of this collaboration is not something you could actually put on paper. It's more important than I can state, because without hip hop breaking into more of a mainstream space that had been held by Rock for like 40 years, hip hop probably wouldn't have ended up being the overpowered, massively popular movement that it has become where everybody listens to it, and honestly I think you can credit this collaboration for that even happening. And for making it possible for people like Lil Nas X to collab between hip hop and country since then, because all these walls got broken down. It was really an incredible moment in music history.
They created this hybrid because of the remix RUN DMC did of this Aerosmith song. The beginning of this video with them not liking each other was a metaphor for the schism between rock and rap, hence the wall that gets broken down and by the end of it, they are on tour together. Listen to Bring The Noise, by Anthrax and Public Enemy. Greatest rap Rock hybrid and a birth point for what came to be Rapcore music.
This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital... (RUN RUN DMC...and Jam Master Jaaaaaaaayyyyy!)
This was the first of it's kind. It saved Aerosmith and boosted the Rap mix into mainstream. It was the studio guy's idea.
Rick Rubin, one of the founders of Def Jam records (along with Russell Simmons), who had Run DMC on the label, convinced them to do it. They not only didn't want to, after they agreed, they had to be persuaded to sing the original lyrics instead of rapping their own stuff over it. As commented previously, this opened a lot of minds, at the time, both ways, across rock and rap (which wasn't called hip-hop back then) fans.
i’m old enough to know both these GREAT 80s bands 👍 the 80s was SICK for music
Another good one is “Bring The Noise” by Anthrax & Public Enemy...Love the Pats sweatshirt!🤘🏻
Live in Florida, and a Pat's fan? Lol. How do you feel about the Buccaneers now? Just curious. I'm from Tampa. But, great reaction.
this was so awesome when it hit back then...RUN DMC made adidas famous when they did the song "my Adidas"...and aerosmith you cant beat
This is why old School hip hop is always going to be way better than what you have know
This was real, they actually went on tour with each other. It was historic, rock meets hip hop and they bridged the gap between the two.
Hey, you put your rap in my rock 'n' roll. Yeah! You put your rock 'n' roll in my rap.
Look at each other.
HIT IT!
That's the late 80's.. genius.. rap and rock... "let's do a collaboration and a concert tour"... "make a ton of money"... i saw them in '86, maybe '87... good stuff... thanks for the memory.. xo
RUN D. M. C. Навсегда останется в сердце. привет из России!
Didn't even blink- "Adidas". I remember when this premiered on MTV. No social media, but the next Monday, at school, everyone was buzzing about it. This was a pivotal moment for rap music becoming "mainstream". It was also my first exposure to rap music. Thx for the memories 🥰✌️
I remember this song when it came out and everybody had the small gold chains and the the hats and the Adidas! One of the first songs to have a rock and rap group together. Also RunDmc never had shoelaces in their shoes! Fashion! Lol
First of its kind guy's first of it's kind and I mean in the history of music!!! This will always be there moment, this brought together so many people and so many genres, you have know idea and my generation got to witness it... Still makes most wanna dance and smile to this day...
Unique for sure! All music.
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This was a favorite MTV video of many back then and you can see why. LOVED your reaction guys!
I worked with a guy that thought Run DMC wrote this song and allowed Aerosmith to perform it with them....lol so funny
This is the kind of stuff I like to hear, actual collaborations, not someone just making their own song on top of just sampling someone else's stuff.
Perhaps the first example of musicians setting the tone for saying, just get along and have a blast, don't matter if its, rock or rap, white or black - have fun.
Still love the songs, a 80s classic of two great bands together to create tge best rap/rock battle song. I listened to this growing up in 80s as a kid and still awsome.
Might be the very first hip hop hit on MTV.
green screen. lol. bless your heart
world need that love right there
I love the figurative wall is a literal one here. The wall between genres is broken when they finally come together :)
Fun fact : all lyrics heard were original , Run DMC didn't change a word, they just delivered it in their own way. And I'm pretty sure Jay ( R.I.P ) had a lot to do with the colab. Run DMC have been rockn since '83 , check out " rock box" & " King of rock " etc.
I remember when this happened and I am a fan of both groups!
I believe this was the hook that began Aerosmith's return to the forefront after stopping in the 70s
Originally an Aerosmith song. Run Dmc used to rap over the drums. Their producer RICK RUBIN convinced them to do a cover of the song and bring in Aerosmith to do it with them. Aerosmith had been on the verge of breaking up until this collab happened.
It's so weird to watch young reactors see this for the first time and remember when it came out, lol - glad you are discovering these talented musicians and cool events in music :-)
All rock, punk, and rap were connected in the 80's and they all worked together. Rap got out with the help of the DIY punk recording studios and self built distribution and later thrash metal was helped out by rap labels and studios.
The idea that all these scenes in the late 70's and 80's were separate was a recent revisionist myth.
People like KRS-1 were as respected as Jello Biafra in the punk community and people like Ice T or Public Enemy were always playing at punk shows or doing collaborations.
The funniest thing is one of the most important independent producers of the 80's and 90's rap scene was also one of the most important of the thrash metal scene and the guy was Asian.
Only corporate branding and later image control divided these groups among fans.
Before reality TV? MTV was awesome!
Nonstop music videos 24/7! Run the TV audio through the stereo and rattle the windows! ☻☺
this is where rap and rock came together... From this video
We are always stronger together 💯
Music - the great equalizer ‼️‼️‼️
#Aerosmith
#RunDMC
They are not competing..they are uniting🙏..
The original song "Walk This Way" was inspired after Aerosmith went to see "Young Frankenstein" in 1974.
They started singing Arrowsmith's song and thats what got them to put the Mike stand through the wall. This was a music video with an audience not a concert. I think.
I remember when this came out..loved jt
Adidas Superstars came out in 1969 and in the 70s most of the NBA players wore them. Afterwards the shoes advanced from courts to the streets and became part of fashion. Run DMC wore them without any laces and pushing the tongue out. They even released a song called My Adidas in 1986, on the same album they covered this Aerosmith song. The 80s Superstars were the originals, the ones Adidas sells now are known as Superstar II's. Recently they also released the 50th anniversary model Superstar 2020.
Yes this is a real performance in 1981
It was originally Aerosmith's song. But to shed some light on people they thought had talent, Aerosmith and Run DMC collaborated on a cover, and this was definitely not the norm, even at the time people knew they were watching something unusual in a good way.
This is what creativity looks like its Aerosmith song they are just doing it in a rap song
For a helluva lot of suburban white kids this was their first introduction to Run DMC. It brought two groups a lot closer, because it helped a lot of people see eachother as friends on equal grounds of respect. That feeling was awesome. Both groups had admiration for eachother. Its still out there too, cuz that shit never really dies.
Keep up the good work, expand your minds, bring the world together, and upgrade that grey matter!
Probably the first nu metal/rap rock song to ever come out.
I remember growing up with this, my dad was an Aerosmith fan so I knew the song growing up BUT I was in LOVE/raised with the Run DMC version and I feel they ALL killed it.
GD it'll be both their songs, in my heart, 'til I die
A classic back in the day. Great job guys!